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  • Swiss Banking Secrecy and the US-Swiss Conflict Over Holocaust Claims

    by Anna Berenika Pruska ...
    Series Book 15 - International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas
    This book examines US-Swiss relations in the context of Swiss banking secrecy and Holocaust related claims from World War II until the end of the 1990s. During World War II, Switzerland had been purchasing Reichsbank’s gold and safeguarded the assets of the victims of Nazi Germany. This deeply impacted US-Swiss relations in the 1990s, and fueled a major conflict over dormant accounts and heirless ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • Tower of Basel

    The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

    by Adam LeBor ...
    A brilliant investigation into the most powerful institution you’ve never heard of.**“An absorbing and thorough examination.” —**ReutersThe Bank for International Settlements is the bank for central banks. It is one of the world’s most secretive—and most influential—global financial institutions.Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930 and protected by an ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler

    The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis

    by Antony Cyril Sutton ...
    'The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities... Not only was an influential sector of American business aware of the nature of Naziism, but for its own purposes aided Naziism wherever possible (and profitable) - with full knowledge that the probable outcome would be war ... Read more

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  • The Money Makers

    How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

    by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Digital Fire ...
    Originally published in 1916, it was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin’s modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in ‘Das Kapital’. This remarkable Marxist text explains fully the inescapable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism.Lenin offers a ... Read more

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  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition (Illustrated)

    by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...
    The book has an active table of contents for readers to access each chapter directly.In the spring of 1916, Lenin wrote Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) in Zürich. This thesis pointed out that the merging of banks and industrial cartels gave rise to finance capital, the basis of imperialism and the zenith of capitalism. In pursuing greater profits than the home market can offer, ... Read more

    $1.09 USD

  • Behemoth

    The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

    by Franze Neumann ...
    Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - including full original text by Lenin

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    Lenin wrote "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" in the spring of 1916, though it was not published until the summer of 1917. The timing was fortuitous for what had been a minority view of interest to few when he wrote it had come to be a powerful message with resonance with many by the time it was published. So, although one of Lenin's shorter works, it is widely recognised as being one ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Broken Promises

    The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

    by Fritz Bartel ...
    A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

    by V.I. Lenin ...
    During the First World War, Lenin found himself isolated, but he was not afraid to fight against the stream. He dedicated all his strength to educating and training the Bolsheviks on the basis of the genuine ideas of Marxism. His masterpiece, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, is an immortal monument to his work in the vital field of theory.No book has ever explained the phenomena of ... Read more

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  • Golden Fetters : The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series NBER Series on Long-term Factors in Economic Development
    This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the framework regulating international monetary affairs until 1931--and the Great Depression that broke out in 1929. Eichengreen shows how economic policies, in conjunction with the imbalances created by World War I, gave ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Collapse of an Empire

    Lessons for Modern Russia

    by Yegor Gaidar ...
    ""My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...."" -From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word-a vast mix of far-flung regions and accidental citizens by way of conquest or annexation. Typical of such empires, it ... Read more

    $27.39 USD